[sr #111026] AGPL spamming my `git pull` outputs

2024-02-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #9, sr#111026 (group administration): [comment #8 comment #8:] > [comment #7 comment #7:] > > The AGPL itself does not require this kind of notice, as far as I can tell, > > The AGPL requires that the program in question prominently offer every its user the corresponding

[sr #111026] AGPL spamming my `git pull` outputs

2024-02-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #6, sr#111026 (group administration): The spamming is not required by the AGPL, the text should simply be removed, This has been reiterated so many times. I also think that someone else than you gets assigned this task, since it is outright impossible to discuss anything with

[sr #111026] AGPL spamming my `git pull` outputs

2024-02-25 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #2, sr#111026 (group administration): Indeed, this was raised quite some time ago and still hasn't been fixed. The notice is not required by the AGPL, and is just causing annoyance. Bob suggested removing it, but that seems to have simmered into nothing. Ineiev, no it would

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Problem with Mailman

2024-02-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Bandali reported that lists.gnu.org ran out of disk space, and escalated that to sysadmin@. There was a spike in spam on Monday as well .. so might be afterquakes...

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SubversionException: 13 - Can't open file '/srv/svn/gnueval/db/fs-type': Permission denied

2024-01-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Thank you for this report. I don't know why but the permissions on that one file were incorrect. drwxrws--- 6 root gnueval 253 Nov 9 11:34 /srv/svn/gnueval/db Yeah, I cannot explain it .. the gnueval repository is not heavily used. I have one job that runs a `svn update' to send

[Savannah-hackers-public] SubversionException: 13 - Can't open file '/srv/svn/gnueval/db/fs-type': Permission denied

2024-01-04 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
E.g., https://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?root=gnueval -> An Exception Has Occurred Python Traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py", line 4322, in main request.run_viewvc() File "/usr/lib/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py", line 268, in run_viewvc

[Savannah-hackers-public] please get rid of this nuisance message from sv_membersh

2023-10-16 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Can we please turn this nuisance off? It is nothing related to the AGPL in any shape or form. You even get this utter garbage when doing an rsync?! ... sv_membersh is part of Savane. In order to download the corresponding source code of Savane, run rsync -avz --cvs-exclude

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] verbose cvs -q update

2023-09-11 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> I believe users who authenticate do interact with sv_membersh > in a way analogous to the frontend PHP code invoked through Apache. > > I don't agree that the AGPL requires this message to be shown on every > cvs update. It's one possible interpretation, but not the only

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] stale directory in CVS-managed WWW pages for groff project

2023-09-01 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Thank you for your help! Happy hacking!

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] stale directory in CVS-managed WWW pages for groff project

2023-09-01 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
It looks like I need some coaching with CVS. It's been a long, long time since I used it daily. No worries, same here .. trying to recall. > $ cvsu > X manual/html_node $ cvsu cvsu: command not found I assume you had a typo, but for what, I'm not sure.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] stale directory in CVS-managed WWW pages for groff project

2023-08-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
>https://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/groff/groff/manual/ If you open that URL you will find a directory: https://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/groff/groff/manual/html_node/ Yes, that directory exists. alongside this one:

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] stale directory in CVS-managed WWW pages for groff project

2023-08-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
There is a stale directory in the GNU groff project's website. https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/ This corresponds to the groff 1.22.4 release, which is nearly 5 years old. The directory also shows up in ViewVC.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] gnu coding standards

2023-06-20 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
>> Savannah Hackers, would you please add Alfred? > >Alfred was added to gnustandards on 2023-06-18. > > Not as admin. Brandon is no longer active. Done; I've also added you to the 'www' group where the generated output is posted, in prep/. Please be more

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] gnu coding standards

2023-06-20 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Savannah Hackers, would you please add Alfred? Alfred was added to gnustandards on 2023-06-18. Not as admin. Brandon is no longer active.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] gnu coding standards

2023-06-19 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> > And some rule on what can "automatically" go into the GCS without your > > explicit review and approval. > >Normally all changes in the GNU standards have to be approved by me, >though it would be ok to fix a trivial typo. > > Fair enough. I'm still

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] gnu coding standards

2023-06-18 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > And some rule on what can "automatically" go into the GCS without

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] gnu coding standards

2023-06-11 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> *waves hand as volunteer* I could do it, it isn't that much work. Thank you for volunteering -- please take up the responsibility. Do you need anyone else's help to do that? Only admin access to https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnustandards -- CCing savannah hackers. And some rule

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please disallow www-commits in robots.txt

2023-05-12 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
That sounds reasonable to me. I would assume that if webmasters don't have access to change robots.txt, it would just be the fsf tech team. They do. It is in www. I'm still sorta opposing this .. we have always been transparant. That search engines "have no business" is as saying that

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please disallow www-commits in robots.txt

2023-05-12 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Might be worth noting that www.gnu.org is mostly usable locally from the CVS checkout as well, if one needs to look things over. So a patch to www-discuss@ or whatever for a unpublished article would be sufficient in postponing any publishing. It would just be a matter of applying the patch, and

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please disallow www-commits in robots.txt

2023-05-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Le 10/05/2023 à 20:50, Alfred M. Szmidt a écrit : > > You've not explained the actual problem. What are you trying to > > solve? > > "it" is the www-commits list, which registers all changes to the www > directory, including

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please disallow www-commits in robots.txt

2023-05-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> You've not explained the actual problem. What are you trying to > solve? "it" is the www-commits list, which registers all changes to the www directory, including to pages that are not published yet. I suspect most of the other *-commits lists deal with source code repositories,

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please disallow www-commits in robots.txt

2023-05-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Because it registers every single commit to www, What is "it"? How is this different from _any_ -commits list we have? including to working directories that webmasters have disallowed, for instance */po/, /server/staging/, */workshop/, /prep/gnumaint/, etc. Ok, and? Please

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please disallow www-commits in robots.txt

2023-05-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I was searching for an article with DuckDuckGo, and guess what appeared on top of the results... https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/www-commits/2023-05/msg00082.html and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/www-commits/2023-05/msg00062.html !! What is the problem? I understand

Re: Question about NonGNU Savannah Downloads Server

2023-03-22 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I've started using NonGNU Savannah recently. I connected to ` download.savannah.nongnu.org` just to explore it. I found that there's a directory called `/srv/audio-video`, what's the purpose of that? Can ordinary savannah users upload files to that directory? >From the README: This

Re: [sr #110840] Creating mailing list in GNU Hackers Meetings doesn't work

2023-02-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Create a forth-years@, and then make a alias on Fencepost for 40years?

Re: Proposal from T. Kelly to add gawk news (persistent scripting) to the Savannah forum

2022-12-20 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
This is the "news" feature in savannah projects, which is automatically fed into planet.gnu.org. But since Arnold doesn't want to enable news, there has to be a way to "manually" submit a news item for planet. There is no such way, the front page of the planet is aggregated feeds. So

Re: Proposal from T. Kelly to add gawk news (persistent scripting) to the Savannah forum

2022-12-19 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
A quick addendum, if gawk had used the Savannah news feature the news entry would have shown up on planet.gnu.org -- planet.gnu.org already tracks gawk news from Savannah. Somehwere in the sidebar: (feed) garpd @ Savannah (feed) gawk @ Savannah (feed) gcal @ Savannah (feed) gcc @

Re: Proposal from T. Kelly to add gawk news (persistent scripting) to the Savannah forum

2022-12-19 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
>From planet.gnu.org: 'Please write to webmast...@gnu.org for feed aggregation requests or suggestions.' So please send this to webmasters@ and they will do the right thing, but you will need to have a RSS feed of some sort.

Re: Proper reference to GNU C Intro and Ref Manual

2022-12-09 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] What is the right URL to refer to the repo of the GNU C Intro and Ref

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Delays in mail delivery by gnu.org mailing lists

2022-09-29 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Lately, mail delivery by gnu.org mailing lists intermittently suffers from very long delays. For example, currently emacs-devel and help-gnu-emacs mail is delivered with delays between 45 minutes and 1.5 hours (based on admittedly small and potentially non-representative sample).

[sr #110725] New Account Activation Email Not Received

2022-09-19 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #1, sr #110725 (project administration): FWIW, You do not need a Savannah account to send a email to grub-devel@ -- they are to separate things. As for the delay in your account submission, one of the Savannah admins will need to look at that.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails

2022-08-25 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Sometimes, some of us subscribed here, can also ping the FSF admins in other ways -- sysadmin@ is not a list that is easily subscribed to AFAIK.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails

2022-08-22 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
But the gripe about the FSF Status page is real: lately I find it less and less useful in such cases. Which is too bad. Just to give a small shout, I agree.

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-04-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
How about reusing the gnu-c-manual Savannah project; the old gnu-c-manual git repository is then renamed to gnu-c-reference-manual or old-gnu-c-manual. And put the new GNU C book into gnu-c-manual or whatever title the book will have.

Re: Run sourcehut software on a gnu machine?

2021-12-22 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
People are talking about using sourcehut to host Emacs development. Can we run that on savannah, or some other VM on the same server? On maybe a semi-related note, is't the FSF going to start some sourceforge? Is that supposed to be sourcehut or something else? Is there a point in setting

Re: Decomissioning vaporware/obsolete/inactive GNU projects

2021-04-07 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
5) ... more? I'd add that putthing all the project files somewhere accessibly, say in old-gnu/, would be a useful. And move any gnu/ files associated with the project to old-gnu/. Sounds like a good idea overall.

Re: Fwd: Improperly configured DNS servers for gnu.org and fsf.org

2021-04-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I suggest iank@ or sysadmin@.

Re: Volunteers for GNU and GNU management [Was: Re: Subprojects in Savannah]

2020-12-01 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I think there is little point in continuing to discuss how you think Savannah is run, it is up to the Savannah hackers how they decide what they wish to work on, or not. You can call this "wrong" or a "mistake" -- but it doesn't change the way how the GNU project works. Moving forward, I

Re: Subprojects in Savannah

2020-11-30 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The GNU project is not some FSF "backyard", nor is it "controlled" by the FSF. It is unfriendly to accuse either Ian, or the FSF in this manner. We are not entield to the FSF's time or help, yet they help us and take care of our equipment and go beyond that -- because our goals are the same.

Re: Subprojects in Savannah

2020-11-30 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> This usually happens... instead of moving forward, we get a > repertoire of defensive arguments that takes us nowhere in facing and > tackling the real problems at GNU.org . I can confirm that this is a recurring theme with regard to multiple Gnu packages (not just savannah).

Re: Subprojects in Savannah

2020-11-30 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
We, the GNU family, have a reason to celebrate today :) I do not see it at that. It is a sad afair when one needs to intervenenterveene in this manner. Thank you also to Amin Bandali, Christopher Dimech and Francisco Vila. Team work! Ian was also instrumental in this.

Re: Subprojects in Savannah

2020-11-30 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I'm going to truncate my reply quite heavily, since many points are either tangential to the problem at hand, or not pertinent to solving it. I could have created the repositories myself in 5 minutes, as I did in OSDN, if I had access to that resource. We need to be in full control of

Re: Subprojects in Savannah

2020-11-29 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Savannah has always been asking for help (about every year there is a call for such), and has been in need of help -- hackers keep Savannah going, but more hackers are needed to make it leap. But for anything to happen, someone has to start doing something -- would you like to organize that work?

Re: Subprojects in Savannah

2020-11-29 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Sorry, I've waited too long. I have started the migration o the GNU Health mercurial repository to OSDN. It's a pity, but it seems like the requests over these years for the modernization of Savannah have not been taken into consideration. They have, but like all volunteer projects

Re: Dependence on nonfree software

2020-11-20 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
>Then, for libre-sapienza (Savannah task #15792), the university >and its students form a single entity: the administration >of the university provides the students with some information >for internal needs of the university. > > Are the students, or the

Re: Dependence on nonfree software

2020-11-20 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
[1:text/plain Hide] On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 05:03:05AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: ... >> Suppose you write a free program that can run in a free GNU/Linux >> distro and talks with Google Maps. With it, people can use Google Maps >> and n

Re: Dependence on nonfree software

2020-11-20 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> > The package must not refer the user to any nonfree software; in > > other words, it must not say anything that in our judgment is likely > > to lead or steer users towards running or installing nonfree > > software on their machine. > > That is a good

Re: Dependence on nonfree software

2020-11-18 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> The package must not refer the user to any nonfree software; in > other words, it must not say anything that in our judgment is likely > to lead or steer users towards running or installing nonfree > software on their machine. E.g., communicating with network > services

Re: Dependence on nonfree software

2020-11-18 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> From reading the requirements, I think it is already clear that > requirement is for software running on your machine, is it not? It is not explicit about this. Some seem to have interpreted "not refer the user to any nonfree software" as forbidding use with an online

Re: Dependence on nonfree software

2020-11-17 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
So I think the Savannah hosting rules need to be modified to say that the criterion is about nonfree software to be run on the user's own computers, and that it does not apply to communication with services run by other people or entities. Would someone like to work on a draft of

Re: Dependence on nonfree software

2020-11-17 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> How is that different from a latest version that is not documented, > and free software? After all, you don't need to provide the source > code for the free software server program. Use the Gnu Affero GPL and the free software server program must be provided for users of the

Re: Dependence on nonfree software

2020-11-17 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Hi Alfred Right. Replace "ecosystem" with 'More and more of the software hosted at GNU Savannah'. It seems bad enough to me, in cases when the server's latest version is documented by nobody and is proprietary. Then it is only its older revisions that were successfully

Re: Dependence on nonfree software

2020-11-17 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> "A different case is when the program talks across a network with > a server running on another machine, and the server is proprietary or > has an unknown license; unless the two pieces of software make a > single program (for example because they exchange complex data >

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Email address no more hidden

2020-07-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
This is I think better directed to the FSF sysadmins. CCing. > Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:54:28 +0200 (CEST) > From: Angelo Graziosi > > I noticed that reading the post online (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-07/index.html, for example), the email address in

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Emacs git repository clone limits

2020-05-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Why not simply use a reference repository? git clone --mirror git://git.gnu.org/emacs.git ~/emacs-reference And when cloning: git clone --reference ~/emacs-reference git://git.gnu.org/emacs.git the ~/emacs-reference place can be accessible where ever you are using it. This will work

Re: https://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php

2020-05-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
That page doesn't say that savannah.gnu.org is only for GNU packages. It seems to be written to cover savannah.nongnu.org. Many of the sections are redundant and potentially misleading because GNU packages are covered by stricter requirements. I think the main issue is that

Re: What are the rules for packages in savannah.nongnu.org?

2020-05-23 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Here is content of that link. Hosting requirements Please read these usage terms carefully. If you don't follow them, we will not accept your project; if we don't have enough information determine whether your project follows these terms, we will have to ask you for more

Re: [savannah-help-public] Abuse at GNU.org

2019-03-07 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
(Sorry for over-quoting; Zoltan's message didn't go to the list.) It did? At least I got it ... maybe it was BCCed. Zoltan, your current tone is not welcome here. It is not a right to have an Savannah account, you have also not shown anything that is suitably hosted on Savannah, nor is it

Re: [savannah-help-public] ask for some kind of moderation/help with project registration

2018-07-22 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You can surley find the time to go through the files yourself to see which ones need ammending.

Re: [savannah-help-public] ask for some kind of moderation/help with project registration

2018-07-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You can surley find the time to go through the files yourself to see which ones lack a copyright notice if you can find the time to write a response here.

Re: [savannah-help-public] ask for some kind of moderation/help with project registration

2018-07-20 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Isn't any mechanism of moderation? This is the mechanism for moderation, Ineiev is doing exactly that. I really feels coerced with all this, when I think I offer full collaboration. Savannah has a set of guidelines that are stricter than most other hosting sites, if you cannot follow

Re: [savannah-help-public] Enough help?

2017-05-02 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
[I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response. The lack of any response is worrysome -- is anyone there?] I tak zaczął ćwirzyć, ćwikać, Ćwierkać, czyrkać, czykczyrikać, Że aż kogut na patyku Zapiał gniewnie: "Kukuryku!" I sent a couple of volunteers your way,

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Shutting down the old frontend?

2017-03-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Is there any reason we can't shutdown the old frontend now? I can't > think of anything that is still using it. I think the time has come > that we can now shutdown halt the old frontend. I moved the content of frontend:/root into frontend0:/root/old-frontend-root - it had

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #1162706] Website DOWN

2016-11-07 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I have forwarded this to the Chapters/Planet admin(s).

Re: [savannah-help-public] Seeking advice w.r.t. copyright & license of Path-Set's meta-tools

2016-11-02 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The GNU GPL is the obvious choice, since that is what GNU plotutils and Daniel Llorens changes are licensed under; it might be an wise idea to also upgrade the license to GNU GPL version 3. It is also the license that protects computer user freedom the best. he copyright notice should list all

Re: [savannah-help-public] [sr #109165] Why aren't the mbox files protected and public available for everyone?

2016-10-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
However my own opinion is that all of the lists may be subscribed to by anyone. Many do. Many archive sites subscribe to the mailing lists and archive the messages. Full archives of all of the messages are therefore easily available elsewhere. The archive is not of subscribers.

[savannah-help-public] [sr #109076] Request to move nano from gnu to nongnu

2016-06-22 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #2, sr #109076 (project administration): FWIW, I forwarded this to Brandon Invergo ; who usually takes care of issues like this these days. But as Assaf notes, this should be brought up with gnu-advisory@, or with rms@ directly -- who is the person that

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] New Wiki page explaining when/how to contact FSF sysadmins

2016-04-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Comments, suggestions and improvements welcomed. I like it. Maybe put it into the GNU maintainers guide as well?

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Web CVS server unavailable

2016-04-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Maybe incorperate it with the Free Software Directory somehow, there could be an icon showing that a package is available in Guix; and which version.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Web CVS server unavailable

2016-04-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
It’s clear that CVS is a hindrance for such purposes so if there’s another possibility, Ludo, why must we go through this yet again? Surely you know perfectly well by now that there is no other possibility at present. Not to mention that it isn't a problem with CVS;

Re: [savannah-help-public] [sr #108996] Unable to perform 'member' access checkout or ssh

2016-03-19 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
It used to be the case I think, been long now, that you could just set the CVSROOT envar to the new value, and run "cvs up -Ad" or similar to update to a new CVS root, and keep the working copy. Otherwise, replacing all CVS/Root files with the right thing is a simple hack ...

Re: [savannah-help-public] [sr #108996] Unable to perform 'member' access checkout or ssh

2016-03-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
cvs -z3 -d:ext:am...@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/www co www For that to work, you need to be a member. Use anonymous checkout instead, cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonym...@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/www co www Or some such, see http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=www for details.

Re: [savannah-help-public] Savannah git down for Emacs repository

2016-02-09 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
FYI, also down for inetutils.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah and the present

2016-02-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Perhaps Savannah is not suited for the purpose of replacing Github, but at the very least the FSF should sponsor sites like: https://notabug.org/ which are based on free software and host exclusively free software (unlike Github, which accepts proprietary programs). It seems that

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah and the present

2016-02-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> It seems that http://notabug.org also accepts non-free programs, for > example: > > https://notabug.org/nelis/hg-shopp-theme > > This has no license information what so ever. If this is in error or > not, I don't know. This should have not happened, according to

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Licensing advice for package submitters

2015-09-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
There is no license that limits commercial use and still compatible with GPLv2 (and GNU savannah). Or any free software license for that matter. All free software licenses explicitly allow commercial use.

Re: [savannah-help-public] Urgent! Allura configuration for LilyPond project

2015-08-16 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Nacho hasn't responded within a month, and our deadline is August 25th! After that date google code no longer works. Please help us to properly set up the VM to run Allura! I do not think that Nacho reads this list (and he wasn't included in CC). He was.

Re: [savannah-help-public] Urgent! Allura configuration for LilyPond project

2015-08-16 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Nacho hasn't responded within a month, and our deadline is August 25th! After that date google code no longer works. Please help us to properly set up the VM to run Allura! I do not think that Nacho reads this list (and he wasn't included in CC). CCing both Nacho, and Jose who might

Re: [savannah-help-public] Replicant source code hosting

2015-06-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
However, we are not sure that Savannah would be ready to host the full source code of the Replicant system, along with a few extra repositories such as our website. In total, we expect that the full source code is about 50 GiB and this will keep on increasing, but will certainly remain

Re: [savannah-help-public] Replicant source code hosting

2015-06-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Nacho: what about chapters? See below. Not sure if there is more, but currently chapters has: /dev/xvda2 99G 71G 23G 76% /

[Savannah-hackers-public] unpacker error when pushing

2014-08-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I'm getting the following error when trying to push, anyone know what is wrong? $ git push --verbose Pushing to git://git.sv.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git Counting objects: 3, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 426 bytes | 0

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Non-fast-forward pushes on git

2014-07-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Instead of getting emotional, have you tried doing `git commit --amend'? That command is exactly created for situations like this!

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Non-fast-forward pushes on git

2014-07-23 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
My new project has been recently approved (gnu-social-mode), but due to a new member's mistake there is a commit on the repository which is malformed. The proper way is to use `git commit -amend'; not rewrite history. But what do you mean malformed? These are the few last commits to

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Non-fast-forward pushes on git

2014-07-23 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Or you, if you're the only one working on that repository, you could try to fix it using `git revert` (see the manual for that). Yeah, I know about git-revert. But the wrong commit is so small/simple that it doesn't take much to revert it. Just use `git commit --amend' for that.

[savannah-help-public] [sr #108178] Cannot close patches

2012-11-11 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #3, sr #108178 (project administration): I'm guessing that you might not have permissions to change the bug, or that the specific project has set up some non-standard fields and names. Which bug are you refering to by the way?

Re: [Savannah-help-public] No response from the submitted project

2012-10-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I have uploaded a project on 12th October in savannah-non-gnu for review, and if it goes well, accept. But as I can see, its not yet assigned to any one for review. My previous experience shows, this process is generally much quicker. What can I do in this regard? You should have

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Who are these past savannah hackers?

2012-10-03 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Do you have a record of past savannah account names and can tell my the full names and email addresses of these guys? arafune kurt nabe Check the ChangeLog file, arafune is Ryuichi Arafune, kurt is probobly Kurt Swanson, and nabe is Hidenobu Nabetani. Sean Farley

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Upload fail

2012-06-29 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Steven, I forwarded you (with you in CC) to sysadmin@, they should be able to help you resolve this. As for making things easier in the future, there is a wrapper script to make uploading (and what not easier) called gnupload, available in gnulib. You might want to check that out instead of hand

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Git / SSH Access

2012-06-18 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/erik/.ssh/id_rsa_savannah Just a thought, it (kinda) looks like you are offering a private RSA key and not the public one here. Are you entierly sure that .ssh/id_rsa_savannah is the _public_ key and not

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Do not publish my information!!!

2012-05-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7379 Please remove this page. I do not want to publish my information. Sorry, but by posting to a public tracker you do agree to have such information published. Same goes for this mailing list, which is a public one with archives available to all

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Should we use savannah for non-software open source GNU GPL project ?

2012-04-11 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
We've done. We saw : For manuals, we allow only GNU FDL. Does it means, using savannah it will be forbid to license our works (schematics, name, and any other descriptions of specifications) under GNU GPL license ? That should be fine, if all files have a proper copyright notice,

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Should we use savannah for non-software open source GNU GPL project ?

2012-04-07 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
[1:text/plain Hide] We know this question might be seemed stupid by many of us, but it is a real question. We are developping an open source project, certainty based on GNU-GPL license, but applied to non-software. Please don't say that the GNU GPL is a open source license, the

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #107999] Big git commit

2012-03-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #5, sr #107999 (project administration): Such a license is incompatible with the GPL, and free software in general. Distributing it via Savannah is not personal usage. ___ Reply to this item at:

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #107999] Big git commit

2012-03-25 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #1, sr #107999 (project administration): I'm kinda curious why a dictionary takes up 11K per entry (I am assuming 90k files equals one entry per file), not even GCIDE (a English dictionary) is that big (about 60M uncompressed)... 1G should be able to encompass most popular

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #107999] Big git commit

2012-03-25 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #3, sr #107999 (project administration): Then my immediate question is, what is the license of RAE? The bottom text says: Real Academia Española © Todos los derechos reservados Which is a no-go for hosting on Savannah.

Re: [Savannah-help-public] LwIP udp socket

2012-03-06 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Hi! You've posted to the wrong list, savannah-help-pub...@gnu.org is for help regarding Savannah, which is a hosting platform for free software. Your problem would be better addressed if you posted your message to the FreeRTOS, or LwIP help or bug lists.

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #107971] cannot connect to git repository

2012-02-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #1, sr #107971 (project administration): Savannah (including all other GNU and FSF machines) are being moved to a new colo. | The GNU/FSF servers are moving between February 22nd and March 1st, | 2012. There will be service interruptions during that period. | There will be a

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #107969] Can't authenticate to bzr.sv.gnu.org

2012-02-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Follow-up Comment #3, sr #107969 (project administration): Savannah (including all other GNU and FSF machines) are being moved to a new colo. | The GNU/FSF servers are moving between February 22nd and March 1st, | 2012. There will be service interruptions during that period. | There will be a

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah dead in the water...

2012-02-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I assume this is known, but the savannah web site isn't answering and neither is the git repo (git.sv.gnu.org). Savannah (including all other GNU and FSF machines) are being moved to a new colo. | The GNU/FSF servers are moving between February 22nd and March 1st, | 2012. There will be

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Projects for Android in GNU Savannah

2011-12-20 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The question is not whether Android requires aditional software to be useful but whether it can be used with only free software, for otherwise Android-specific projects can't run on a fully free enviroment which is a requirement in GNU Savannah. A simple approach might be to do what

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